Navigating to apps when welcome screen is present

[liza-mae]

We have some cloud tests that are failing due to the welcome screen about 27 tests, although this setting is disabled in on-prem testing we don't have this option in cloud. It would be nice if our navigating methods in FTR could check for it and click to continue.

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-operations

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-test-triage

[kobelb]

Is it possible to add kibana.disableWelcomeScreen to https://github.com/elastic/cloud/blob/master/scala-services/adminconsole/src/main/scala/no/found/adminconsole/clusters/kibana/validation/KibanaUserSettingsValidator.scala so we can configure this in Cloud and not have to change all these tests?

[liza-mae]

Currently there is not -- I have a case open on that end too -- but after speaking with Spencer we thought it would be good to also have this, I will follow up.

[jinmu03]

@liza-mae any update on the welcome screen?

[liza-mae]

@jinmu03 I think I have a solution, it is currently in testing :) I will assign this issue to me.

[liza-mae]

Fixed via elastic/elastic-stack-testing#390

[liza-mae]

Reopening for another test need, @pheyos is going to look at adding this functionality to FTR.

[liza-mae]

The fix I put in only works on staging, but Robert wants to run these tests on production, I think bypassing the welcome screen will at least allow those tests to run and I agree there is value in running these tests on production too. One staging/production difference I found in #51522 and also possibly #55632 .

[flash1293]

The home app will show the welcome screen when there are no registered index patterns and the local storage key home:welcome:show does not contain "false". Both options seem like viable alternatives to setting disableWelcomeScreen in kibana.yml. For example I was able to run the index pattern feature control tests skipped here #39389

by adding

      await browser.setLocalStorageItem('home:welcome:show', 'false');

after line 32 in https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/7.6/x-pack/test/functional/page_objects/security_page.js#L32.

This will make sure it is set after Kibana is loaded but before the welcome screen is already visible.
Adding a fake index pattern instead of using empty_kibana would also be possible, but would probably require a few changes in the tests itself.

@liza-mae What do you think? Would this be a good solution to you?

[liza-mae]

@flash1293 nice! Yes this sounds like a good solution to me, let's give it a try.